2011-2012 Winter Programme

Wednesday 19 October
Jill Turnbull
What Glass has done for Edinburgh   [Poster]

Wednesday 16 November
James McCarthy
That Curious Fellow: Captain Basil Hall, R.N.   [Poster]

Wednesday 14 December
James Simpson and Tom Addyman 
Educating Reekie:
Uncovering Edinburgh’s College     [Poster]

Wednesday 18 January
Chris Fleet
The Bartholomew Archive: 
a Cartographic Window into Edinburgh’s Past     [Poster]

Wednesday 15 February 
Robert Anderson
Edinburgh Schools, 17801880:
Organisation and Architecture     [Poster]

Wednesday 14 March
Murray Simpson
David Laing: Antiquary and Collector     [Poster]

2010-2011 Winter Programme

Wednesday 13 October
Carolyn Anderson
"For the Peace of the City":
The (Re)construction of Edinburgh Castle
in the Eighteenth Century     [Poster]
 
Wednesday 17 November
Aaron Allen
Conquering the Suburbs;
Politics and Work in Early Modern Edinburgh     [Poster]
 
Wednesday 08 December
Willis Pickard
Duncan McLaren, Lord Provost and MP     [Poster]

Wednesday 19 January
Olive Geddes
Golf – Edinburgh and Beyond     [Poster]
 
Wednesday 16 February
James Simpson OBE
The Strange Migration of Botanic Cottage     [Poster]
 
Wednesday 16 March
Professor Alexander Broadie
Why Hume Still Matters     [Poster]

2009-2010 Winter Programme

Wednesday 14 October
Professor David Purdie
A Bard in Baxter’s Close
(Robert Burns and Edinburgh, 1786-91)     [Poster]

Wednesday 11 November
Mr David MacClay
John Murray's Publishing Archives:
the Edinburgh Perspective     [Poster]

Wednesday 9 December
Dr Patricia Andrew
Illustrations of Edinburgh     [Change of programme, no poster]

Wednesday 13 January
Mr David Ingram
Gayfield House:
Discussion ranging from Deacon Brodie to William Trotter     [Poster]

Wednesday 10 February
Mr Andrew McMillan
The City of Edinburgh - Landscape and Stone     [Poster]

Wednesday 10 March
Dr Patricia Andrew
Alexander Nasmyth 1758-1840: Painter and Polymath     [Poster]

2008 – 2009 Winter Programme

Wednesday 15 October
Sheila Szatkowski
John Kay, 1742-1826: Barber, Miniaturist
and Social Commentator     [Poster]

Wednesday 12 November
Dr Patricia Andrew
Jacob More, 1740-1793: an Edinburgh Artist in Italy     [Poster]

Wednesday 10 December
Prof. Charles McKean
When did Edinburgh become ‘the Old Town’?:
an Enlightenment Conspiracy Unravelled.     [Poster]

Wednesday 14 January
Dr Alexander Stoddart
Hume, Stevenson, Smith and Clerk Maxwell:
Four Statues for Edinburgh     [Poster]

Wednesday 18 February
James McCarthy
Keith Johnston, Cartographer and Explorer     [Poster]

Wednesday 18 March
John Chalmers
Andrew Duncan, Physician of the Enlightenment     [Poster]

2007 – 2008 Winter Programme

Wednesday 17 October
David Affleck
Regent Morton and his Chamberlain,
George Auchinleck, “the arrogant upstart.”     [Poster]

Wednesday 14 November
Michael Lynch
The Grooming of Edinburgh to become the Capital City
in the 16th and early 17th Centuries     [Poster]

Wednesday 12 December
James Robertson
The Case of Joseph Knight:
Slavery and Freedom in Enlightenment Scotland     [Poster]

Wednesday 16 January
Donald Smith
Cultural Champion:
William J. Hay and Old Edinburgh     [Poster]

Wednesday 13 February
Alan Taylor
Muriel Spark’s Prime     [Poster]

Wednesday 12 March
The Boog Watson Lecture Dr Iain Gordon Brown, President, OEC
From Arthur’s Seat to Mount Etna; or, ‘‘I sit in St. Carlo’s Nose’’: James Hall, Advocate, at large in Europe, 1821-1822     [Poster]

2006 – 2007 Winter Programme

Wednesday 18 October
Dr Nicholas Phillipson
Adam Smith     [Poster]

Wednesday 15 November
David Ingram
Castlehill to Canongate:
The 18th Century Royal Mile     [Poster]

Wednesday 13 December
Graeme D. R. Cruickshank, M.A., A.M.A., F.M.A.
The Edinburgh International Exhibition of 1886     [Poster]

Wednesday 17 January
David W S Todd M.A., M.Mus.
Theatre and Music in Edinburgh     [Poster]

Wednesday 14 February
Professor Sam McKinstry
Walter Scott and Accountancy     [Poster]

Wednesday 14 March
Norman E. Butcher B.Sc., F.G.S.
James Hutton (1726-1797):
Founder of Modern Geology     [Poster]

2005 – 2006 Winter Programme

Wednesday 19 October
Cecilia Cavaye BMusHons, LRAM, ALCM, DipEd
The Begbie Slides of Victorian Edinburgh     [Poster]

Wednesday 16 November
Professor David Purdie MD, FRCP Edin
Mirror of Enlightenment:
Images of 18th century Edinburgh     [Poster]

Wednesday 14 December
Fiona Jamieson DipTP, MRTPI, FSAScot, IHBC
A Jaunt through Four Centuries of Gardening
at the Palace of Holyroodhouse     [Poster]

Wednesday 18 January
Laura Stewart
Edinburgh and the Outbreak of the
British Civil Wars 1625-37     [Poster]

Wednesday 15 February
Dr Athol Murray
History in the Making:
Sir Walter Scott and Jock Howieson     [Poster]

Wednesday 15 March
Dr Elizabeth Cumming
Cultivating the Garden:
Patrick Geddes and 1890s Edinburgh     [Poster]